Böcker av Peter Frankopan

När västvärldens inflytande minskar och Asien åter kommer att utgöra världens centrum, sker det längs samma vägar som för tusen år sedan. Det var i öst den mänskliga civilisationen tog sin början. Det var där världens stora religioner föddes och f...

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När västvärldens inflytande minskar och Asien åter kommer att utgöra världens centrum, sker det längs samma vägar som för tusen år sedan. Det var i öst den mänskliga civilisationen tog sin början. Det var där världens stora religioner föddes och f...

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For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search of adventure and riches. The region stretching from eastern Europe and sweeping right across C...

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The No. 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller - a major reassessment of world history in light of the economic and political renaissance in the re-emerging east For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World o...

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När västvärldens inflytande minskar och Asien åter kommer att utgöra världens centrum, sker det längs samma vägar som för tusen år sedan. Det var i öst den mänskliga civilisationen tog sin början. Det var där världens stora religioner föddes och f...

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«<Eine neue Geschichte der Welt> - dieses Buch verdient den Titel voll und ganz.»Peter Frankopan lehrt uns, die Geschichte neu zu sehen - indem er nicht Europa, sondern den Nahen und Mittleren Osten zum Ausgangspunkt macht. Hier entstanden d...

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A revised edition of Anna Komnene's Alexiad, to replace our existing 1969 edition. This is the first European narrative history written by a woman - an account of the reign of a Byzantine emperor through the eyes and words of his daughter which of...

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From the author of the No. 1 bestseller The Silk Roads: A New History of the World The First Crusade is one of the best-known and most written-about events in history but in this new book Dr Peter Frankopan asks vital questions that have never bee...

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From the author of the No. 1 bestseller The Silk Roads: A New History of the WorldThe First Crusade is one of the best-known and most written-about events in history but in this new book Dr Peter Frankopan asks vital questions that have never been...

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According to tradition, the First Crusade began at Pope Urban II's instigation and culminated in July 1099, when western European knights liberated Jerusalem. But what if the First Crusade's real catalyst lay far to the east of Rome? Countering ne...

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';This is history on a grand scale, with a sweep and ambition that is rare Aproper historical epic of dazzling range and achievement.' William Dalrymple,The Guardian The epic history of the crossroads of the worldthe meeting place of East and West...

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A Chronology of the Crusades provides a day-by-day development of the Crusading movement, the Crusades and the states created by them through the medieval period. Beginning in the run-up to the First Crusade in 1095, to the fall of Constantinople ...

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A Chronology of the Crusades provides a day-by-day development of the Crusading movement, the Crusades and the states created by them through the medieval period. Beginning in the run-up to the First Crusade in 1095, to the fall of Constantinople ...

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A Chronology of the Crusades provides a day-by-day development of the Crusading movement, the Crusades and the states created by them through the medieval period. Beginning in the run-up to the First Crusade in 1095, to the fall of Constantinople ...

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The No. 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller - a major reassessment of world history in light of the economic and political renaissance in the re-emerging east.'Magnificent' Sunday Times 'Immensely entertaining ... so ambitious, so detailed...

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Set your sails east with this stunningly original new history of the world. Peter Frankopan, number one bestselling author and historian explores the connections made by people, trade, disease, war, religion, adventure, science and technology in t...

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The revised edition of the No. 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller with a new epilogue, covering recent world events, and additional illustrative material `Immensely entertaining ... so ambitious, so detailed, so fascinating' The Times For...

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D'Alexandre le Grand aux nouvelles Routes de la Soie, 2500 ans d'histoire comme vous ne l'avez jamais lue.Avec son histoire du cA ur du monde Peter Frankopan renverse notre recit traditionnel, qui gravite autour de la Grece antique, de Rome et de ...

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Peter Frankopan betrachtet eine der folgenreichsten kriegerischen Expeditionen der Weltgeschichte in völlig neuem Licht. Im Jahr 1096 zogen rund achtzigtausend Kreuzfahrer los, um Jerusalem und die Grabstelle Jesu nach über vierhundert Jahren wied...

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Peter Frankopan lehrt uns, die Geschichte neu zu sehen - indem er nicht Europa, sondern den Nahen und Mittleren Osten zum Ausgangspunkt macht. Hier entstanden die ersten Hochkulturen und alle drei monotheistischen Weltreligionen; ein Reichtum an G...

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Oksfordzki historyk Peter Frankopan przedstawia nowe spojrzenie na przyczyny pierwszej krucjaty, ktora zapoczatkowala swieta wojne. W 1096 roku kwiat rycerstwa europejskiego ruszyl wyzwalac Jerozolime z rak muzulmanow. Bezposrednia przyczyna pierw...

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È universalmente noto che le prime grandi civiltà ebbero origine nella regione che si estende fra le coste orientali del Mediterraneo e l'Himalaya: qui, nella valle dell'Indo e in Mesopotamia, vennero fondate le prime grandi metropoli e edificati ...

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"È cosa bellissima morire per Cristo nella città in cui lui è morto per noi." Con queste parole papa Urbano II, nel novembre del 1095, indice solennemente la prima crociata (1096-1099) ed esorta gli uomini d'arme di tutta Europa a imbarc...

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